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In today’s Academic Minute, Vanderbilt University's Robert Scherrer explains a hypothesis that could explain dark matters elusive nature. Scherrer is professor and chair of the department of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt. Find out more about him here. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.